The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-09

! at the depot Iy q large number 81 the prom
iUat,R oitizeIF OF Thibodau1, including fhs
1 Clsy Epabloeh Guards and the volunteers
There was not anegro to be Beenin any d.
reation.
Tho excitement has to q considerable ez.
tent glibsided, and the leaders Of the rioters
II ia generally understood, have quit the
| cunntrv. AtIeaBt they have not been seer
since the alfair OF Wednesday. The citizens
are determined to preserve the peace ant
have organized to that end.
III appears that the trouble leading on tC
| the riot Of Wednesday commenced about ter
days ago, when negroes fired on white mar
named Theodule Battle, passing on the lcyee
BallIe is & sugar boiler, and he was fired upar
a mile below town. There was some firinE
also on Lewis Guionis suGRr-house, in which
/ quite q number Of white men wore lodged
4 Several shots were fired al white laborarB or
the Leighton plantation, and the orerBeei
was struck in the face by small shot but
fortunately not seriously injured. Between
/ Thibodaux AMI Huuma hands under cant
| sheds were fired upon.
/ Indeed things had got TO such a point tina
citizens were afraid taHo out ON the public
I highway for fear Of being
| SHOT AT BY NEGROES
in ambush. The Sugar Planters Association
OF Iafourche appointed committee Of five
10 wait on the five men who were suspected
of being the instigRtoIB of the shooting in
LRfourche, and notified them that their fol-
lowers must preserve the peace On that
night shooting occurred al five different
suRarhouses in Batourehe, the parties belrg
In ambush, and on the succeeding night shott
were fired at three other sugarhouBes.
The colored people, vino had been moved
SWAY from their respective plantations, and
who had taken refuge in the town Of Thibo
daux. were being harsngued day and night
for the purpose Of inspiring them to deeds OF
violence Some Of the colored women made
open threats againBt the people and the COM
munity, declaring that they would destroy
any house in the Town. One could hardly go
on the streets without seeing clusters OF ne
grpes at the different thOrOug1fareB, indulg-
inC.in conversation that bodied no good to
the peace and order OF the community. Not
q few of the negroes bgasted that il case
fight was made they were fully prepared for
it. Reports were frequent to the effect that
tine NEGROES proposed to
MAKE AN ATTACK UPON THE TOWN.
and on Sunday morning it was reported IN
the country that the negroes bad assembled
On st. Charles street and were thoroughly
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necessity Of organization for the protection
Of their lives and property, and TO meet any
emergency that might possibly arise ont 81
the present difficulties. Hence At was that in
view of existing dangers the citizens of Thi-
bedau< organized for the purpose OF man
tanning peace aud good ORDER .-
On Sunday at p. N. mass meeting wns
called and patrol organized, with q view of
Stopping lawleSsness and crime. A company
OF volunteers was also organized TO pickat
the town The picAets were located in every
portion Of IhiBDdauE and kept mp nightly
watch.
The negroes we're repeatedly warned by
several Of the prominent and influential clti-
Gems Of the place that laWlessness at night
must cease, and that good order must be re-
stored aud maintained During SUNDAY
largo bodies OF mounted men were IN waiting
for any emergency. On Monday the negroes
were lnsotent, Bneerlug at the soldiers aud
cltlzel9s alike. and PTociaiming publicly the
white people were atrDid to fire on them aud
that under ans circumstances, they were
prepared. Monday might some unknown
persons went into EranltliU's C0fieeshouse,
where there we've some negfoea playing eRFCis.
THE NEGROES MADE An ATTACK
upon thewhites, when fl ing was commenced,
resulting in the shooting OF tTo negroes.
Watson, one Of the negroes, ran two squares
and died, and the other, Morris Page won't
to his home, painfully but not fatally
On Tuesday morning large crowds Of white
people, planters and Others, from the sur
country came into town armed,
and with determination to maintain peace
and order. During the day the two Cox
brothers, who were reported To be the lead
efs Of the disturbing element, were arrested
aud JAILED, the people being evidently deter \
mined to put an end to future trouble To-
ward evening the negroes appeared 10 have
been bllodueu, and the people were led 10 be-
liege that the trouble WIS happily ended, and
that there would De no farther violence.
The night passed OF quietly, hut at 8 a. m. 4
: guard Of tive men, at the intersection Of
10 Charles street and the railroad, ~ the
south end af the town, was fired upon by q
SQUAD OF neEToes ~ ambush; The wounded
men We're y. y. (EoFulan and Henry AIolaisOn.
yIorman Ras shot IN the left check with
slug. which took q downward telidellcy and
passed out through lis mouth. WheIi seen
permit tied 10 speak Mn. ALolsiRou received
icnr shois in the right Leg only two uf
which have TINS far been distracted His
cont and pants were perforated in fourteen
different places.
siR. MoIsAIsoNs STATEMENT.
Relative to the shooting, Mr. hIOlaison
said, IN an N teTEIew with a representative
LIE IIAIEs-l isEoGRlNT TINS evening: Il was
lne Oh the pickets stationed at the terminus
q !, ~. M g{astEles street Ny watch Nas trom
put none OF us we're near 1T at the time of
The shooting. Myself, German. Anslett and
s5runeburg We're fnllg ESQ. Yards from the
shot was fired aud German rolled over into
Ehe ciltcl near By. German was shot about
Z a. M, lthoughti It was a pistol shot Nh.
AnLitgonge accompanied Mr. German home,
Both were gone about five minutes, when i /
told hessrs. Anslett and Grnneburg to take /
my place, as j wished to assist Mr. Gorfna 4 Il
| bad gone about zoo yards from Anslett
when i was shot down."
he shooteIa were in ambush IN q corn
leld SITUATED shout 100 yaEds from tile
picket lines. Who they were ID not known. i
except that they we're negroes. Mr. Moiaison
When the fact Of the shooting was made
tn0fgn IN IhlppdauN the citizens organiged
Tor sell protection 3 company Of Folantears,
aud tbe Clay nobloch Guards immediately 1
ID the direction Of tho negroek'
settlementRnd the former opened fire upon
NE MOB and searched their houses for arms
.lld ammunition, and in about twenty Inin- /
ltss closed the AFFAIR, after having
CAPTURED a NUMBER or sHoTGUEs
oaded with slugs and buekshot, Bixnegroea
we're Killed outright and four have since
he'd OF their wounds
The people Of the town Of Thibodaux and
NJ parish generally regret the necessity /
Iced they deeply depipre II, bit neFerthe- /
esa 1eel that q Was necessary to take iDame- i
liale and vigorous steps to eradicate an evil /
leaee and. good order, but Tho Lives ana /
property Cd q whole cOnamunity.
Lieut.. s5ov. Clay kppbipch, Judge Taylcr
ae3sftS; siisrth Il1lDooallx, Col. 4. u. Moore
'ntl others 3ihp were seen express the deep
" negre4 ~ me present tOpdition u /
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The planters whose places have been made /
he SCENE of trDiiDle Thus far are ~ fo1i6Ws.
z Iagarai Glaudst Bros, Ernest Roger. i
ae llnQn place, David CHlderie, 0ranae I
5foEe. AfosclaiF A hobichauS, John Il. +
Moore, Jr., and Peter Bergers.
The alEsRERs Of TIE LOUISIANA RIR1Es,
Tho arrived yesterday, are Capt. O. Ii. Al L
ipsl First Lieutenant y. ~ Mailer, Sec
lnd lAsptenaHt II. u. JYiatt, First Sergeant
a Z. ,telloWs, 5econd Sergoant John Duffy,
lard l Sergeant Moses CorpeFals Bega aid
~ ana Prisates bonneeiszs, Auth, Re-
laua, ailon, Alnnroe. Blaise Calhoun,
laA1a, Aernande2. Falgo, MAY. Dowiar. 1
.lnller, Meyers, Nienei Hainberg and Rey-
The following g the detachment from The
4 assainaton Artillery: Sergeant Vaughan,
4. y. Bi1ckmar. III. Hhoderdom, ASH III Ered
y hube, and Dan Kelly.
AZ previously stated, there yas not 4 afns
rs negro To Re seen On no streets Of Ihibo-
:a III ais9n tne arrival Of the troops. Nerg <